[50 Shooter]

Lewis and Clarke carried an air rifle with them on their expedition.

http://www4.vmi.edu/museum/air_rifle.html

Some good reading, follow the other links for more info.

[ZeroX]

That's one heck of a BB gun. :evil:

[taliv]

holy crap. i would never have guessed they had the ability to make a seal that tight.

[RevDisk]

Very sophisticated weapon for its time. Does anyone make a repo?

[Harry Tuttle]

Beeman has the original
http://www.beemans.net/lewis%20assault%20rifle.htm

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=72187

[MechAg94]

The History Channel's shows have mentioned that before, but I hadn't seen pictures. Thanks.

[50 Shooter]

Harry,
Sorry I didn't see your thread before, hard to imagine that someone had made an air rifle in that era.

One of the guys I shoot with had a friend come out to the range with an air rifle that used a scuba tank. It was very accurate and deadly to paper targets at 100 yards. Can't imagine what it would cost for someone to make a copy of one of those.

[RevDisk]

One of the guys I shoot with had a friend come out to the range with an air rifle that used a scuba tank. It was very accurate and deadly to paper targets at 100 yards. Can't imagine what it would cost for someone to make a copy of one of those.

Any decent metal fabrication shop could make copies by the hundreds.

[50 Shooter]

Sorry, I meant the Lewis & Clarke rifle.

[ckyllo]

IIRC the L&C air rifle had roughly the same amount of energy as a hot load .357 mag. it was mentioned it dave kopel's "a world without guns", a good read if you havent read it.

http://www.martin.mesanetworks.net/wrldnoguns.html

[Harry Tuttle]

i think a CNC and carbonfiber wrapped tank Girandoni would be very cool

http://www.beemans.net/images/Gir-rifle-full-900-copy.jpg